Day 8 - More Rantings

Ohaiyo! (eh. or rather konbanwa!) Today we have interviews. (pardon my english, but as the day goes on, there is no chance to use perfect grammattically correct english.) It was kinda relaxed one. There were many people shooting things at you, but i guess i already have the knowledge, plus they asked about other stuff like what i did in school. simple enough.

During the waiting time, i surfed the net for my PDA again. Didn't check mail. wonder why. maybe it ain't that important now. i am already enjoying not having any internet connection. life is so much simpler. When there is no handphone, life is so much more straightforward. Alas, we surcomed (huh?!) to the temptation of television on the phone and also 2.2mp camera.

i realise my english is getting rather bad. haiz. maybe i am rushing this diary so that i can spend the rest of the night doing something like studying. there is a new book for us today, Modern VLSI Design, system on chip design. by Wayne Wolf. Just need to do chapter 8 for the rest of the 2 or 3 months. Actually i think we are smarter than that. The book is pretty basic.
anyway, i guess i can channel my energy to my japanese then.

We went to the bank after lunch to collect our bankbook. Deposited my money 540,000yen. After which i went to buy a bunch of bananas. 198yen for 5 del monte size banana. Cheapest fruit i can find for that size! i think i will need the fibre. i can't seem to get enough vegetable here. salad maybe, but not chinese vegetable like at home.

The weather (again) is considered hot today. We can go out in our tshirts. but we still feel the cool breeze. After the banana purchase, T3 and i, along with the other TOSMEC members went to a shop far far away to eat with the TOSMEC staffs. The place was like a traditional japanese house. We have to take off our shoes and we sit on the tatami mat crossed legged. Haiz. i hate sitting like that. after 1 hour, my legs were numb. There was a wide variety of food in front of me once i sat down. There was this raw squid, felt like i was in FEAR FACTOR, but it was OISHII!!!! i drank beer with it and it was out of this world. Next plan of attack is the sashimi. Oishii desu ne!! there was even sashimi prawn with some blueish green egg roe. the prawn tasted sweet neh. Next is the Purple chreacentamum(dammit!) flower...soaked in vinegar, soy sauce, and wasabi. Nice nice.

chotto. i go put on some moisturiser. After washing my clothes, i realised i should have gotten a glove.

Ah. next was this vegetable kinda thingy. brown, toufu kinda thing. Next. Chowamushi. need no intro. but there was a little bit of orange peel in it. just a small piece. next, the fish. delicious cod fish i think. next is the tempura vegetable. then last is the soba. i tell you, this is really a great meal. There is sake, beer and lots of food for everyone. i finished all my share. it's a great way to save money too. haha. that's S$10 saved you know!

in the morning, i bought the wrong coffee. Bought a cold one. but i guess i didn't regret it cuz the weather today aint' that bad.

sorry for side stepping, we were also asked to drink alot today. There is this guy who kept filling our glass and kampai with us. he's the joker of the company i guess. hehe. anyway, they taught us the "protocol" of pouring drink for the other person. they even pass the bottle to another person so that they can get their own glasses filled. (of course you have to do it first to get
the honour.) he have pirated DVDs too. muahaha. That was after we mentioned "the last samurai". they were amused that we have watched it before. There is this robotic thingy in kawasaki twice a year. i wonder if i can get there. anyway, Bingwen and I drank quite abit. Bingwen kanna more cuz he didn't turn as red as i did. i looked like the sashimi on my plate. They didn't offer the sake to me today. sigh. maybe i am too red. and everyone thought i was drunk? don't know. ah, at the beginning of the party, we were told of our assignment. T3 got into Jpeg, Vincent and Yuhui into NAND Flash HW, bingwen into ECC, and i am in NAND Flash SW. Yay. It's just what i wanted.

end of the party, everyone went "Yoooooooooooooo!" and clapped once. another tradition.

Wanted to play soccer again today, but i guess everyone is too tired after the drink. T3 says he have never drank so much. So i went for my bath anyway. Before that, went to try my PDA, and IT WORKS!!!! but i lost every single data. DAMN. Since i was so happy, i decided that today is the day that i will START doing my laundry. It's only a small bucket full. hehe. So i went to do it by hand. bad choice. i have no idea how to do it, though i have done it before at home. But after a while i guess i got the hang of it. One bucket of soapy water, next is a rincing water, then final rinse. (water here is fixed fee) the white socks can't be washed nicely though. There was too much damage done by the boots i wore on the way to japan. Tomorrow is a holiday! wonder what we will be doing. Day after, work starts at 9am. heh.

i haven't taken any photos to put in my phone yet though. So anyone who call me, i will not recognise. number too long. t3 one i recognise liaoz. got 3201 in the middle. Yay, the PDA is fully charged! time to play with it. haha. Tata